Artificial bait.



I. A WITTY.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.I9, I9I2.

Patented Feb. 29,1916.

Jlli as .arssrr JOHN ,WITTY, 0F WHITEHALL, MIICHIGEIJ'.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

Patented Feb. 29, w th.

ll il'izii liv-fil. Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed September 1%, 1912. Serial No. $271,152.

To all whom it 921 my concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. W'ITTY, 'a citizen oi the United States. residing at ihitehall. in the county of Muskegon and 5 State of Michigan. have invented a new and useful Artificial Bait: and l do hereby (leolare the follo *ing to be full, clear, and c eseriptiozi of the invention, such as noble others skilled in the art to which v he and use the same.

lates to a new and useful of the in *ention it is ificial bait, to repre w or the like having and obscured from en pull g action is imparted pen the fish line the hook will be actuated, order to pi t that is. after the 2i t has bees swallowed the fish.

' One of the feature of the invention, is that the harder "ling action is upon the the hook will pierce the fish.

Another object is to provide the bait with single ordouble fish hooks.

Another object of in t the baitrepreseots a frog, the top ano. om thereof m v he painted to represent so that w. .me "is east out 5; the weeds o is the like, it.

whieii sid 5 down or up, espebait used. as a floating bait 0n the top r In some cases signecl to float under-tie surface of the truetion are ehselose 'l. an

n ght to alterations provided the a The invehtion comprises further features In the drawings: Figure 1 is a View in e bait is to repz complete frog. and

Water.

in the, draw oertain features of con- I cl In practical fields the patentee has the the U i.e"'ations are comprehended Within the scope or what 1s claimed.

and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth. shown in the drawings and claimed.

perspective of a bait representing a frog.

8 ig. 2 is a sectional View through the same, sl'iowing' the mounting of a single fish hook. Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 2 showing a double fish hook. 4 is a View showing 2. different form of hook. View of a bait, representing a minnow. Fig. 6 is a sectional. View through Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a View of the eye of a pair of hooks Fig. 5 is aa fish hook i, the hotly oi? iieh hook is so shaped, as to protruiie slie l' tly hevond the 1 both of the bait. so as to rolel the hoolr end 8 of the hook concealeo. When the bait is swallowed by fish, the protruding portion 9 of the fish hook is struck by the jaws of the fish, in order to throw the hook end outwardly from the body 0t the bait, so as to pierce the fish. in Figs. 1, and the fish hooks are provided with extensions 10, to which is connected. one end of an eye pin 11, whieh partially slides in the body of the bait, and to the of this pin the 1 sh line 12. is connected. it will be seen that when I the fish hook is actuated. to pierce the fish,

a polling action may be imparted upon the fish line. in oroler to further actuate the hook. and the harder the pulling action is, the farther the hook pierces the fish.

In Fig. 4.: the fish hook is constructed of one piece oiimaterial, formed in a coil 13, which is mountecl upon the pivot pin, there being enough resiliency in the Wire of the hook, in order to hold the hotly portions of the hooks protruded. However, the resil of the hooks is not sutlicient to prevent the jaws of the from zetuatinp; the hooks.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been devised alsimple and efiicient artitiei'al bait, anal one which has been found desirable and. practical.

The protruding: portions 9 of the fish hooks 7 are provided with oulg'es 7 with which jaws of a Contact in order to insure that the hooks will be depressed. These bulges T- engage the transverse pins 7, and owing to a pulling action on the line 12, the bulges '2' yielrlahly engage the pins 7, thereby yielclably holding the spears 8 normally within the slot. When the artificial bait is caught by the fish, the jaws of the fish come in eontact with the protruding parts 9 of the hooks. pressing the hookstoward each other. thereby overcoming th resiliency in the bulges T, and causing said bulges to spring past-the pins 7, in which case the'spears 8 will protrude from opposite sides of the artificiai bait, in

portion of the fish hook adjacent the hook proper engages, so as to yieldably hold the spear of the hook normally within the slot, the pivoted end of the hook having a lateral extension, a member slidably mounted in the body longitudinally and having a connection with the extension. the back portion of the hook to be depressed by the jaws of the fish to throw the hooked end of the hook outwardly, and upon a pulling action upon said member the hooked end is actuated further to pierce the fish. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. WITTY.

\Vitnesses Emma J. WITTY, 7 Mrs. A. S. BILLINGS. 

